Hotboot

I am not a coder and i really don't intend on being one, i just want to get the hotboot command to work. It is in commands.dat as

#COMMANDName hotboot~code
Code do_hotboot
Position 100
Level 60
Log 1
End

and cedit hotboot show as

Command: hotboot
Level: 60
Position: 0
Log: 1
Code: (005329A0)
Flags:
Has been used 4 times this boot.
Time (in secs): min 0.000000; avg: 0.000000; max 0.000000

any idea how i can make it work?

didn't mean to put code after ~

Do you add the correct line to mud.h and the 2 lines to tables.c for do_hotboot?

This is why i am not a coder.. i'll toy with that a bit i guess, i am clueless

wait.. what line to mud.h and tables.c

Look over how other commands are in. Search for like do_look in mud.h and tables.c or search for the forums for how to add the lines.

I did that but it still says that code doesn't exist when i try to set it.

What exactly did you do, then?

Actually i put it in mud.h and tables.c but when i went to
compile it turned out they were already there. I had my friend who was a coder look at it and he didn't know, he said that it could be working and it may not be looking at the if( skill == do_hotboot )
return "do_hotboot";

Can you show us the lines you put in/already in about hotboot in mud.h and tables.c?

Also did you remember to include hotboot.c in your makefile if you have one?

tables.c the only line i added was:

if( skill == do_hotboot )
return "do_hotboot";

there are also some other thing in tables.c that were there that include hotboot.

mud.h has hotboot stuff in it, it didn't have:

DECLARE_DO_FUN( do_hotboot );

but if i try to add that when i compile i get:
$ make
make -s smaug
Compiling o/imc.o....
In file included from imc.c:45:
mud.h:3763: warning: redundant redeclaration of 'do_hotboot'
hotboot.h:40: warning previous declaration of 'do_hotboot' was here
make[1]: *** [o/imc.o] Error1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Make sure there are only 2 lines about hotboot in tables.c, and get rid of the line in mud.h since it's already in hotboot.c, then try it.

I tried taking this out of tables.c and using the other:

if( skill == do_hotboot )
return "do_hotboot";

then the same with:

if( !str_cmp( name, "do_hotboot" ) )
return do_hotboot;

still didn't work, i took the line out of mud.h before you just wanted the error message, however in mud.h there are other lines that talk about "hotboot"

Every time i change something in the code, make clean, make
and reboot it still doesn't work which is probably one of the problems. I tested this with wizlock by changing the wizlock message and no matter what i do it won't take the new message.

Hm, what are you using? Cygwin or a shell? Are you sure you're running the correct exec file? Can you show me the line you changed for wizlock?

write_to_buffer( d, "The game is wizlocked. Only immortals can connect now.\n\r", 0 );
write_to_buffer( d, "Please try back later.\n\r", 0 );

to

write_to_buffer( d, "The game is wizlocked. Only immortals can connect now.\n\r", 0 );
write_to_buffer( d, "Please try back later. If you have dire need to connect...\n\r", 0 );
write_to_buffer( d, "or have and questions contact me:\n\r", 0 );
write_to_buffer( d, "AIM: Krelowyn, Thank You.\n\r", 0 );

It was just a simple change i tried to see if this was the problem.. and either i am doing something wrong or it is.

Well what are you using Cygwin or what?

Yes that's fine. Does the mud successfully compile?

Cygwin yes, and compile works out fine, no warnings or errors.

And how are you starting the mud? It sounds like you're running an old exec.

the smaug exe that came with it,... how else can i? I'm not to good at this i see

I need more than just "the smaug exec". What are you typing to start it, and where is it located?

.. its called smaug, in the ../smaugfuss/ folder and i click it.. :P

So it's just in the /smaugfuss/ directory? It should be in the smaugfuss/src directory.

won't start there...
moves so fast through the list of loading stuff that i cant
even see what the last thing is before it shuts the application

Well this is the problem, you aren't running the mud correctly. You normally start it like this in the area dir:

Or you just run the startup script.

I hate to act more like i don't know what your talking about but... what exactly does that mean?

Open Cygwin, navigate to the area directory, and type that command. Cygwin is an emulator of linux, so you may have to look up a basic linux guide.

Starting up through cygwin in that way did work however the changes still don't take affect.

When you do a make clean, what exec is deleted?

When i make clean it says rm -f o/*.o smaug *~

Yes but watch, which file is removed? Where is it located?

I soupose the only exec i have is in ../smaugfuss/

I'm wrong, when i make an exe pops up in ../smaugfuss/src named smaug but i can't open it.

And when running that exec in the src folder the changes still do not show up?

Can't open it, says it wants cygwin1.dll and no matter where i download it from it says something in missing in dll file cygwin1.dll ect.

Do a search for cygwin1.dll on here, see what comes up. I've seen some posts about it.

Alright, will do.

Alright it sort of works, but when i click on it it runs through some start up stuff and closed the application, and the changes arn't there when i run it through cygwin.

If you're making a change, saving the file, compiling, and running the right exec, then personally I have no idea. Perhaps someone else can offer some insight on this one.

area.lst: No such file or directory, but it is there

You need to run it from the area dir.

Woot worked, but.. it says wrong password for everyong and i check the pfile and it is right

Sock.sinaddr: 127.0.0.1, port 1434
Preloading player data for: Krelowyn (2k)
[*****] FILE: ../player/k/Krelowyn LINE: 29
[*****] BUG: Fread_char: no matche: ICEListen
[*****] FILE: ../player/k/Krelowyn LINE: 29
[*****] BUG: Fread_char: nomatch: 415263~
Updating area entry for Krelowyn
Closing Link to Krelowyn.

Do a search, there have been issues with passwords using Cygwin.

Not sure it has to do with cygwin though because i tested opening it in the area folder and it ran (through the exec not cygwin) and the passwords still wouldn't work:

Sock.sinaddr: 127.0.0.1, port 1197
Preloading player data for: Krelowyn (2k)
[*****] FILE: ../player/k/Krelowyn LINE: 29
[*****] BUG: Fread_char: no matche: ICEListen
[*****] FILE: ../player/k/Krelowyn LINE: 29
[*****] BUG: Fread_char: nomatch: ~
Updating area entry for Krelowyn
Closing Link to Krelowyn.

[*****] BUG: Fread_sysdata: nomatch: IMCMailVnum
[*****] BUG: Fread_sysdata: nomatch: 0

Those are fine they shouldn't affect anything.

What about what i said before:

" Not sure it has to do with cygwin though because i tested
opening it in the area folder and it ran (through the
exec not cygwin) and the passwords still wouldn't work:

Sock.sinaddr: 127.0.0.1, port 1197
Preloading player data for: Krelowyn (2k)
[*****] FILE: ../player/k/Krelowyn LINE: 29
[*****] BUG: Fread_char: no matche: ICEListen
[*****] FILE: ../player/k/Krelowyn LINE: 29
[*****] BUG: Fread_char: nomatch: ~
Updating area entry for Krelowyn
Closing Link to Krelowyn. "

Can you create new players? If you can, try making a new one, and quit, log back in, see if that works. Could be your pfile.

Actually tried that before.. creates fine but password is still messed up.. mortals have a different error.. i think in stead of "29" it would be line "33" and then the rest is basicly the same.

Those player errors don't matter, it continues past them. Your issue is using Cygwin has issues with crypt/passwords. As I said, do a search. A topic just came up about this a bit ago.